ShadowLord Posted August 16, 2002 Posted August 16, 2002 Remaining questions: What does 8088 mean? What connection protocal was used for dial-up 10 years ago? The 8086 (officially called iAPX 86) is a 16-bit microprocessor chip designed by Intel in 1978, which gave rise to the x86 architecture. Shortly later the Intel 8088 was introduced with an external 8-bit bus, allowing the use of cheap chipsets. It was based on the design of the 8080 and 8085? (it was source compatible? with the 8080) with a similar register set, but was expanded to 16 bits. As for the connection protocol I am not sure what your asking about. I do remember getting my first 300 baud modem. That plugged directly into the phone cord instead of placing the phone receiver on the modem cradle. And I still remember the Atari II vs Commador 64 debates on the BBS forums. You know like the AMD vs Intel stuff. And I remember scraping together $150 bucks with my brother to get a 1.44mb HardFloppy drive. I mean 1.44mb my god what was I going to do with that much space. And it had random access ability. I didn't have to fast forward my tape cassette. Yes that is right a tape cassette is what my old commador64 used to save external storage. At least I am not the oldest on the forum. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dgephri Posted August 16, 2002 Posted August 16, 2002 The protocol I had to use to dial-up to the college campus (1992) was called SLIP...PCs weren't compatible with PPP until a year later, PPP was for Macs (ugh) only at the time, although both apparently were really different ways of doing TCP/IP? I was never a network geek, just a computer and gadget geek. Before SLIP was pretty much BBSs and transfer was through Xmodem, Zmodem, and some others that I forget now. I never did much on BBSs. I remember in grade school, buying FLOPPY, floppies (5 1/4") for a buck a piece, double sided (yes, you could flip them over) and double density. When 3 1/2" came out it seemed like the biggest advance in computer history!! Beer: I have much knowledge in this department: Favorite: Alaskan Amber, an ALT style beer, no aftertaste, smooth, and kind of sweet (but not in an "unbeer-like" way) more like Hef without the bitter. Regular: mostly Coors Light, because you can drink it for 10-12 hours on the river and not pass out from dehydration... Cancun is a great town for Tequila, stick with Don Julio Reposado, expensive, but the best. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowLord Posted August 17, 2002 Posted August 17, 2002 The protocol I had to use to dial-up to the college campus (1992) was called SLIP... SLIP old your kidding me right. I still use SLIP protocol to dial into some of my customers boxes. Well a year ago I still did. They finally went VPN this year. Dude I thought you ment the the old modem strings and stuff for modems to get them to initialize. Remeber having to type in the following. &F&A&ADT12013421200 To get a modem to dial A phone Number. Also the really old stuff was to use SADLE which was for the old EBCDIC machines. Mainfraims and the old System36 and System34. I remember getting those machines to talk. This was for the first pre-dated EDI transactions between companies. We used to upload are availble Food goods each day to the Kroger Store MainFraim using a SADLE modem. Lots of fun. 3 days and 3 different PGM languages. Also anyone remeber what EISA stands for????? Ill give you a hint it was way way before PCI and way before ISA bus. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
statix6900 Posted August 19, 2002 Posted August 19, 2002 yeaaaaaaaa Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazakman Posted August 19, 2002 Posted August 19, 2002 oh no!am i the oldest fart and oldest newbie or what?i'll be 42 at the end of september. got to go off subject like everyone else,dislikes:flat beer and flat chested women!lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VolcomPimp Posted August 19, 2002 Posted August 19, 2002 LOL... ya flat chested women suck... we should just start callin them men... Flat beer sucks too... but god I want a flat screen... heh Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazakman Posted August 19, 2002 Posted August 19, 2002 oh boy!this one is going to get me into trouble.sorry guys,i just couldn't help my self,that was post was begging for this reply!lol not everything flat is annoying,the screen sounds good to me! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco Posted August 19, 2002 Posted August 19, 2002 oh boy!this one is going to get me into trouble.as a man i hope all women suck!sorry guys,i just couldn't help my self,that was post was begging for this reply!lol not everything flat is annoying,the screen sounds good to me! That comment was out of line! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazakman Posted August 19, 2002 Posted August 19, 2002 sorry,won't happen again. : Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaTeD-R Posted August 19, 2002 Posted August 19, 2002 22! Great Age....20's OwN Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevilMB3017 Posted August 19, 2002 Posted August 19, 2002 Wow. I made a topic that became 4 pages. lol I think the teens are the best. You can still enjoy getting drunk with friends, get laid, and all kinds of stuff, and get your parents to pay a lot easier....lol B) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
capthowdy575 Posted December 7, 2008 Posted December 7, 2008 22 on dec 22 lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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